What helped one neighbor heal can help the next.
Recovery equipment is often used once, then left in a closet or garage for years. The Care Closet keeps it in circulation — clean, safe, and ready for the next neighbor.
Good equipment, stuck in the wrong closet.
After a surgery or a hospital stay, families end up with walkers, shower chairs, and canes they only needed for a few weeks. Meanwhile, a neighbor a few streets over is going home without any of it.
A walker bought for one recovery can help three more. A shower chair can prevent a fall. The supplies to help someone heal are usually already in the neighborhood — they just need a way to move.
Collect, clean, pass forward.
Collect
Neighbors donate gently used recovery equipment and unopened supplies that are just sitting unused at home.
Clean & check
Every item is cleaned, inspected for safety, and clearly labeled before it's shelved.
Pass forward
When a Care Request needs equipment, the Closet fills it — fast, free, and close to home.
Clean, safe, and ready to help.
For everyone's safety, we keep a clear line around what the Care Closet can take in.
We gladly accept
- Walkers
- Canes
- Crutches
- Shower chairs
- Blood pressure cuffs
- Thermometers
- Pill organizers
- First-aid supplies
- Hygiene supplies
- Unopened recovery essentials
We cannot accept
- Prescription medications
- Opened medications
- Unsafe or broken equipment
- Soiled or unclean items
- Invasive medical devices
- Items requiring clinical fitting (unless approved by a partner)
“A walker used after one surgery can help another neighbor get home safely — and then a third. The same quiet object, carrying people through their hardest weeks, one after another.”
That’s the whole idea of the Care Closet: care doesn’t end when one person recovers. It gets passed forward.
Our safety process
Donated items are cleaned and sanitized, inspected for damage, and set aside if they aren’t safe to reuse. Anything that needs a clinical fitting only moves with a partner’s sign-off.
Donate SuppliesFor partners
Clinics, senior centers, and community groups can request equipment on behalf of someone they serve, or host a small Care Closet shelf so supplies stay close to the people who need them.
Partner With UsPass care forward.
The walker in your garage could be exactly what a neighbor needs next week.